Ghoulumbe Better than most people think

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

jacobjohntaylor1 I is one of the scariest movies ever. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. I can not believe I got a 4.1. Come on it is a 10. It is scarier then The Shinning and that is not easy to do. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. I think the people who do not like this movie just do not know a good horror movie when they see it. Do not lesson to the haters. If you like really scary movies you need to see this movie. It will scary you. And if it does not know movie will. I can not believe people hate this movie.

gavin6942 A young man (Barry Watson) tries to deal with the childhood terror that has affected his life.Is Emily Deschanel the poor man's Deschanel? In 2005, this might have been the case. Sister Zooey was already huge with films like "Elf". But soon, you know what? Emily would go on to do over 200 episodes as the lead character in "Bones". (Though her name is still probably not as well known, her success is not debatable.) This film seems to have terrible ratings... and yet they made some sequels? It's not actually a bad movie. If anything, maybe people were disappointed that we see so little of this "boogeyman" monster... but that should not be a strike against it. Rather than scare us outright, they worked on building the suspense. And that, to me, is the more challenging approach.

aembaumann If you look at the negative review on this site, you will see most of them don't like the film because it didn't fit their expectations of what a horror film was supposed to do. Which is almost a sure fire sign that the film was attempting something over their heads. In truth, this is a clever, well executed film. No, there's no character development, but that's not the point of the film. The film is wholly about the conflict between the boogeyman and the Tim. It is rather like a tight, horror short story, which frequently have only the moment of the event in question, and only as much outside as is needed.) No, they don't show much of the boogeyman. But, again, that is how the film works -- with glimpses, and very effectively. No, there is no back story to the boogeyman, but there does not need to be. Why does a hero have to know the full story of his enemy to fight them? They don't. All that is is a convention, that makes movies easier to understand.I watched this film (on DVD, but I also saw it in the theaters) right after watching _The Forsaken_, and found great humor in that all the visual techniques that were being tried in _The Forsaken_ -- which were not quite working, often because of timing, often because of execution -- were used also in _Boogeyman_, but so much more effectively and successfully. The thing is, it is not a conventional film. It is imaginative, creative, very clever in camera work and storyline.I give it 8 stars because I can't give 7.5. Definitely check this film out, but don't walk in with expectations. Perhaps this is a thinking person's horror (horror for those who are attentive to details). It is definitely one of the exceptions to the rule that horror needs to be rated R.

Toronto85 Boogeyman begins at night time with a little boy in bed afraid of things in the dark, which most kids are. His father comes in and to humour him, checks around the room to make sure "the boogeyman" isn't in there. However, when the man enters the closet he is pulled in by something and the door is slammed shut. Flash forward fifteen years, and the little boy Tim is now an adult (played by Barry Watson) with a pretty normal life, but still with his fear of the boogeyman after seeing what happened to his father. Despite him seeing his father pulled into the closet by something, everyone's been trying to convince him over the years that he imagined the whole thing and that his father left him and his mother one night. Anyways, After finding out that his mother died, Tim decides to spend a night in his old family house where the incident years ago took place. It isn't long before Tim starts to see things happening around the creepy old house. He witnesses doors creak open by themselves, things in the dark that aren't really there, and himself as a little boy roaming around the place. He then has visions of all the children that the boogeyman has supposedly taken over the years. The boogeyman is quickly shown to be an actual supernatural being with the ability to hurt people. He kills Tim's girlfriend and uncle before attacking him and Kate (a childhood friend of Tim's). Eventually Tim realizes that to kill the boogeyman, he has to face him. He does that sending the boogeyman into the closet which has turned into some whirlwind vortex or something. I don't know...The boogeyman had promise and I was really looking forward to seeing it when it came out in 2005. However, the plot is too all over the place and has some really big holes missing from the story. If the boogeyman was just a supernatural "thing" that affected only Tim and his childhood, how was it able to murder his girlfriend and uncle? And then there are the scenes in which Tim goes through a closet door at a motel and end up back at his old house, sort of like a portal. It's just too all over the place at times. Acting isn't bad, it's pretty much all Barry Watson as we see his character confront his fears. Oh and the ending is pathetic. Won't get into it, but it's just so rushed and a little cheesy.If they had just stuck to a more simple plan when creating Boogeyman, it could have been a frightening horror film. They took it to a high level of fantasy and supernaturalism that just made the whole movie lack in the horror/scary department. And that is what the boogeyman is supposed to be; scary. It has its cool moments, but overall isn't what it could and should have been.5/10